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<td class="v">57:1</td>
<td>The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.</td>
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<td class="v">57:2</td>
<td>He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.</td>
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<td class="v">57:3</td>
<td>But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.</td>
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<td class="v">57:4</td>
<td>Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,</td>
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<td class="v">57:5</td>
<td>Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?</td>
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<td class="v">57:6</td>
<td>Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?</td>
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<td class="v">57:7</td>
<td>Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.</td>
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<td class="v">57:8</td>
<td>Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.</td>
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<td class="v">57:9</td>
<td>And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.</td>
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<td class="v">57:10</td>
<td>Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.</td>
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<td class="v">57:11</td>
<td>And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?</td>
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<td class="v">57:12</td>
<td>I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.</td>
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<td class="v">57:13</td>
<td>When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;</td>
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<td class="v">57:14</td>
<td>And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.</td>
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<td class="v">57:15</td>
<td>For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.</td>
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<td class="v">57:16</td>
<td>For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.</td>
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<td class="v">57:17</td>
<td>For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.</td>
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<td class="v">57:18</td>
<td>I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.</td>
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<td class="v">57:19</td>
<td>I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.</td>
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<td class="v">57:20</td>
<td>But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.</td>
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<td class="v">57:21</td>
<td>There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.</td>
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